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480119 KO Colloquium on Literature and Cultural Studies (2022W)

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes in the country of communists. Soviet Victorianism of 1970s - 1980s

5.00 ECTS (2.00 SWS), SPL 48 - Slawistik
Continuous assessment of course work
ON-SITE
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Details

max. 25 participants
Language: German

Lecturers

Classes (iCal) - next class is marked with N

  • Friday 07.10. 09:45 - 11:15 Seminarraum 6 Slawistik UniCampus Hof 3 2P-O1-27
  • Friday 14.10. 09:45 - 11:15 Besprechungsraum Slawistik Unicampus Hof 3 2R-EG-40
  • Friday 21.10. 09:45 - 11:15 Seminarraum 6 Slawistik UniCampus Hof 3 2P-O1-27
  • Friday 28.10. 09:45 - 11:15 Seminarraum 6 Slawistik UniCampus Hof 3 2P-O1-27
  • Friday 11.11. 09:45 - 11:15 Digital
  • Friday 18.11. 09:45 - 11:15 Seminarraum 6 Slawistik UniCampus Hof 3 2P-O1-27
  • Friday 25.11. 09:45 - 11:15 Seminarraum 6 Slawistik UniCampus Hof 3 2P-O1-27
  • Friday 02.12. 09:45 - 11:15 Seminarraum 6 Slawistik UniCampus Hof 3 2P-O1-27
  • Friday 09.12. 09:45 - 11:15 Seminarraum 6 Slawistik UniCampus Hof 3 2P-O1-27
  • Friday 16.12. 09:45 - 11:15 Seminarraum 6 Slawistik UniCampus Hof 3 2P-O1-27

Information

Aims, contents and method of the course

The course is dedicated to the strange (and even rather exotic at the first glance) phenomenon of the late Soviet social and cultural life - the "cult of Englishness". It started - in the very limited form - after the WWII but had reached its full flowering in the second half of 1970s. Numerous translations of the classics and even contemporary authors of British literature, almost illegal "beatlomania" and the popularity of British rock- and pop-music and especially the adaptation of English "adventure" literature (mostly from Edwardian period), especially the crime prose by Arthur Conan Doyle, G.K. Chesterton, Agatha Christie, C.P. Snow and some others. The breakthrough happened after the first series of "The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson" had been broadcasted on Soviet TV in 1979. That "Soviet Sherlock Holmes cult" was the most powerful representation of the phenomena which can be defined as "Soviet Victorianism".

Lectures, discussions, workshops, group screening of the movies etc.

Assessment and permitted materials

Essay at the end of the semester

Minimum requirements and assessment criteria

Attendance, active participation, reading, discussion contributions

Examination topics

Reading list

Selected bibliography, list of the video and images links:

1. Conan Doyle A. Novellas and short stories about Sherlock Holmes.
2. Steinbach S.L. Understanding the Victorians. L.: Routledge, 2011.
3. Kobrin K. A man of the Brezhnev times on Baker Street: on the problem of the "late Soviet victorianism" // Przeglad Rusycystyczny. 2007. 4. P. 67-89.
4. Kobrin K. That Seventies Show: Why Russian popular culture is stuck in the past // Calvert Journal. 23.04.2014 (https://www.calvertjournal.com/articles/show/2323/seventies-culture-brezhnev-era-russia)
5. Kobrin K. Šerlok Cholms i roždenie sovremennosti. Den'gi, devuški, dendi viktorianskoj epochi. SPb: Izdatel'stvo Ivana Limbacha, 2015.
6. The Victorian web: https://victorianweb.org
7. Russian TV series about the adventure of Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson (with English subtitles): https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLS5g10jrGG0Fg9g-o862Kg31VAyqItsul

Association in the course directory

M.4.3., M.5.2.

Last modified: Tu 04.07.2023 08:27